Centos 8 users: EOL December 2021

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Hi Centos users;

Are we thinking of moving over to Rocky Linux or Cloud Linux since the news that Centos 8 will not be supported past December 2021?

Thanks
Kitty
 
static_sa said:
Depends on how bad CentOS Stream is
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Most likely won't be, but for those that absolutely need the steady base and kernel, they'd have to move to Rocky or Debian if need be. It's just a requirement sake.
 
Rocky Linux barely exists yet. Will it reach maturity? Will the founders stay committed?

What's your reason for using CentOS? If you need to test things to run on RHEL, you can get a free developer license.

If you just want a stable free distro with a committed developer community, just run Debian.
 
You could always switch to Oracle Linux :unsure:

but Oracle.

Regardless of whether Rocky Linux itself becomes a thing or not, no doubt someone will establish a new downstream project - there is clearly an established user base.

I read a couple of articles suggesting that Red Hat might introduce a new 'free tier' of RHEL or some such. We'll see.
 
I'm getting anxious. Cent has been my server friend for a really long time. I once tried Ubuntu and it was not for me.
 
GreGorGy said:
I'm getting anxious. Cent has been my server friend for a really long time. I once tried Ubuntu and it was not for me.
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Red hat now offers a sort of free version up to 16 servers.
 
Is it really necessary to have a standalone distro for this? Is it not easier to develop applications for existing distros?
 
r00igev@@r said:
Debian FTW. Ubuntu is bloated and on the desktop side I've used Mint because it seems to be better with hardware support. (Ironic as it's a fork of Ubuntu).
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I've freaking moved back to Windows on my laptop, Ubuntu and mint have issues when Nvidia gfx cards and my second monitor via hdmi wouldn't work. Also the odd Realtek chipset Lenovo chose to use for sound the microphone wouldn't work half the time.
Not to mention for some odd reason even with a M2 NVME SSD boot times were slower then my desktops SARS SSD. Sadly windows solved those problems even my VPN is more stable sadly.
 
Lupus said:
I've freaking moved back to Windows on my laptop, Ubuntu and mint have issues when Nvidia gfx cards and my second monitor via hdmi wouldn't work. Also the odd Realtek chipset Lenovo chose to use for sound the microphone wouldn't work half the time.
Not to mention for some odd reason even with a M2 NVME SSD boot times were slower then my desktops SARS SSD. Sadly windows solved those problems even my VPN is more stable sadly.
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I have all my infrastructure on debian and use Windows on my laptop as well. There is a nuc on Mint at the office that I use for testing. Debian was a big pain to get to work on that. If it worked on Mint, it'll work on debian.
My time on the laptop is spent in waterfox, putty, slack and office.
Yeah, the laptop mics are cr@p. I bought a USB podcast microphone for my laptop. The kids stole that and forced me to buy them all the same microphone. Picked them up on special on takealot.
 
I generally prefer Ubuntu server to CentOS and Debian so no big deal for me.
I will just phase out my production CentOS boxes over time.

Its inevitable that most things are going *aaS, you just need to take a look at where big tech companies are heading to see the desired operating model.
 
OpenSuSE Leap and SLES is now binary compatible.
The idea is to, among other things, both improve support for openSUSE as it benefits from the same service pack as SLE and to help facilitate an enterprise migration from openSUSE Leap to SLE. In practical terms, DevOps teams can test applications and codes on openSUSE Leap for free and more easily — and securely — migrate to SLE.
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